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As near as I can tell, these orders do nothing. They don't eliminate the ability of a trust to avoid the CLEO sign-off from what I have seen, and that is the primary purpose of forming a trust for NFA items. The import ban covers a VERY small portion of firearms, and as far as the CMP goes, they get their guns form the government. The government would be the ones importing them. The government is listed as an exception to the order. These actions have one of two purposes. 1) to look like he's doing something. 2) To generate unrest in the gun owner community so they complain about them a lot and the dems can uses that as a bargaining chip to get votes for stuff that is actually onerous in congress.

The article bothers me because while what it says is not untrue, it is basically wrong. Bullet geometry and barrel length factor into it. Pretty much every rifle bullet sold comes with the recommended twist rate on the side of the box. Even for the barrel length and twist specified, it is very often not in line with the greenhill formula. I suspect this is due to the time when he developed the formula vs the advent of high BC bullets. Actually it's probably safer to say that the article has no really useful information in it outside of getting some context to really research the topic via the search engine of your choice. This chart is actually much more useful than that article IMO, especially if you are going the "AR for dummies" route as the article frames itself. Mainly because the odds of being confused are less. A 1:8 barrel with a .223 wylde, 5.56 sam-r, or something like the noveske match mod 0 chamber are very versatile, especially if staying in the 14.5-18 inch range. For ARs, one thing I would add as another general rule is that you will see slightly better performance form a barrel that gets two full rotations before the bullet exits than one that does less than two. But to put the article in perspective, there are plenty of people getting some pretty solid accuracy out os a 1:7 chrome lined 5.56 barrel using 50gr varmint rounds. There are also a bunch of people out there getting very good accuracy out of 20" 1:9 barrels with 77gr bullets. It's not a simple system being modeled, so like shocker said read all that and work up your own loads. If you want to know how to find the best recipe for that, try lots of powders and ladder test your loads.

Pistol yes, necked rifle no.. the aerosol at least is a guarantee of a stuck case.

Well, I use 'royal' wax, but this is also what I do. Also it smells nice.

I use a silver sharpie to tag my 10 vs 15. This isn't a hard question worthy of asking lots of folks about. Visually differentiate them.. done. Stickers, tape, sharpies, electric pen, etc.

It's the excise tax. It is federal. http://www.ttb.gov/firearms/faet-faqs.shtml all the magic forms and whatnot http://www.ttb.gov/applications/faet_packet.shtml http://www.ttb.gov/tax_audit/atftaxes.shtml the rates for various BATFE covered items.

Kind of. It's not coincidence that the RKBA set and the ACLU increasingly find themselves arguing the same side despite the ACLU not recognizing the 2nd as a right.

Hell no. That means people who shouldn't be dragged to court are being dragged to court and are effectively being punished for something they shouldn't be punished for. (At a minimum it costs them money). It also wastes my tax dollars on losing court cases because someone can't do their job right. That's pretty much the worst solution for everyone. AT least one of these things is pretty simple to fix, and that's the in car video being absent. The fix? any citation can be contested for video evidence. No video log, case gets tossed. No ifs ands or buts. It's broken? The car doesn't roll. Not the correct number of vehicles out on the road that day? Fine the state superintendent. The gear that does this job has decreased in price so dramatically, and become so generally available since this was put in place that there should be ZERO excuse for this.

Google front sight and scientology. For $250 you are signing up for what is essentially lifetime access to a very basic course broken up into two inconvenient chunks and to upselling. Kind of like a timeshare thing. Since one of the things you can be up sold to is buying into the planned defensive community, there isn't that much of a difference. Waaaaay back when they opened, they got themselves on 20/20 or some similar news program. Back then their shtick to get you in the door was some free machine gun shooting. They were much more open about it being a sales pitch. When that didn't take off and sell out quickly, they changed to focus on making money off the sell. I've never heard of them going full scientology and doing the creepy stalker s thing, but they have done the boiler plate scientology hate group/defamation lawsuit thing repeatedly. The owner is theta clear just like Tom cruise and Charles Manson.

Come on let them pass it then take it to court and kill the existing excise taxes. If they are smart, that's why this will die in committee.

Bale and batman are done. In theory the plan was man of steel and then justice league stuff.

Wow, people blow this way out of proportion. Want a good test? Would you take them to the range? Yes, then why not sign the letter. Every one I have signed has said the same thing: I know of no reason X should not own firearms.

Also keep in mind recoil sensitivity isn't always about recoil. Sometimes it is sound. Plugs plus muffs. Also regardless of caliber, a heavier gun absorbs more of the recoil.

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Well, here's an article on how they knew to solicit you. Nothing really shocking if you have some idea how data aggregation works and where you leave a trail, but I'm sure some will find it to be big news. The article misses the point that it's not really a gun registry as there's no information about what you own, jsut some really well infromed guesses that you do own or are likely to own a gun. http://www.buzzfeed.com/stevefriess/how-the-nra-built-a-massive-secret-database-of-gun-owners

They assume everyone else is like themselves. It is a pretty common error of judgement. They are irrational, hateful people who hold grudges against others who have done nothing to wrong them and will react to perceived slights disproportionately. If you saw the world as filled with those people, would you naturally want them all armed?

What was the gun? An ar should not permit firing that far out of battery.

Recoil springs - low end is about 3k, high end is about 15k. Barrel - low end is 10k, high end is 100k. Caliber, load, quality, maintenance, user needs all affect where that falls. For factory combat Tupperware, 40-50k is not usually a big deal. Magazine springs are also relatively high wear. So are trigger return springs, etc. Expecting a gun to last 80-100k with spring replacements and a barrel replacement is not unreasonable.

Best store prepped dog I had was from some anonymous cart in Philly when I was in middle school. Store bought, the hotdogs from dietrich's in pa have ruined me.

For 6.8, this is a well thought out barrel profile for a lighter gun. http://ar15performance.com/inc/sdetail/11562/14400 I have one of their really light profile .233 barrels. It shoots well for being as light as it is. As a business, they give a lot of attention to 6.8.

I mostly agree. There is the distinct possibility to argue a compelling state interest even under intermediate scrutiny. However, I suspect you could get a ruling on charging for it as there is court precedent about much smaller sums than we pay being an undue burden. Heck, you might even be able to get the 30 days or whatever we feel like ruling reversed.

Uh the only issue that makes the change seem shocking is you. Seriously, even in the 60s, not everything was folk or doo-wop, not even close. And that's just looking at what survived on a major label. In the 1800s, you still had music distributed on sheet music or player piano rolls. You mostly saw it live or you didn't consume it. Even if you saw it live, the only stuff that got seen by large numbers were orchestral or marching bands because lots of people playing lots of instruments was the only way it was loud enough to play for large audiences. Maybe you smoked your opium and banged your ladies of the night in relative silence. Maybe there was someone there with a guitar, piano, or something else. The music didn't change that fast because the public consciousness at large was only exposed to so much of it. Move forward to radio becoming more standardized in the 1920s, then on to the 30s you start seeing orchestral music get rearranged into more entertaining big band type arrangements, and the electric guitar shows up, and jazz is a big deal if you are the hip happening sort, and you have radio so you can expose it to more than 50 people at a go. 20 more years on form that, you have what you would refer to as good god fearing music of the working types or something, but was the music that put the planet in moral peril according to the 1950s version of you. IT was also the music teenagers humped and got drunk too. They also moved on from opium to heroin, so there's progress there too. Ten more years and you have frikin woodstock, which makes the beatles seem like stodgy chamber music. 10 more years after that you have punk, disco, metal, etc. Music changes. The more it gets shared to more people, and the cheaper and more accessible making it and distributing it gets, the faster that's going to happen. It's NEVER been a leave it to beaver world, and welfare has ZERO to do with the state of music.

I went to an old time soda fountain place as a kid. Great malts, but the current issue teenagers had been issued an egg cream recipe that had eggs in it. It was an interesting half hour of trying to explain there would be no payment for something that was not only NOT an egg cream, but that was a health hazard and not legal to sell.

We'll charge it to the war on terror.

Last I checked in there were two sources of brass, and two bullets that are really appropriate. Looking now, there are three sources of brass: hornady, ssa, and remington. Assuming ssa isn't just custom head stamp from one of the others. 6.5 Grendel and 300 blackout both have four. It now has 12 whole bullets available for it. 6mm appropriate for 6x45 there are about 50, a bit more for .300 blackout. 6.5 Grendel bullets there are about .40. That's still a TEENY, TINY number of sources compared to the others. It's still a curiosity for the most part, and that should be kept in mind when buying into it.